In general, the SCI cost of illness studies spanned eight different countries, presented results from costs as early as 2000, were mostly based on an observational cohort and calculated gross costs in an incidence cohort without a non-SCI comparator. Only 2 studies included indirect costs (Garcia-Alteset al. 2012,Kawu et al. 2011) or sensitivity analyses (Garcia-Altes et al. 2012, Cao et al. 2011). Cost perspective and health care settings included in the studies varied.

For each study a summary of the results including the costs adjusted to 2013 US dollars ($1 US dollar= $1.23 CA dollar 2013) is presented below. The results presented focus on the cost per patient. Due to the differences in health care systems, studies were stratified by country.